Empyrean Iris Story Collection Vol. 4
Charlie Starr
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Part 4 of A growing collection of Humans are Space Orcs stories that details the adventures of Adam Vir, Sunny, Dr. Krill and other's in the Empyrean Iris Universe as they band tog...Foundation Day
An explosion rocked the ground sending a bone rattling vibration up through the soil and into his feet. He felt the sudden change of air pressure from the explosion in his chest, a hollow thump that made his insides rattle. Bright blue and red light lit up the sky casting illumination down on kay's pudgy little face. The small boy's eyes were wide with delight, and he pointed up to the colored sparks with a grin of wonderment on his face.
Another explosion went off, and this time emerald sparks cascaded downward followed by a sharp crackling rattle of flashing white light. Over the roaring of the fireworks Adam could hear the cheering of the crowd. In his arm Kay continued to clap and wave his tiny Arcadia flag, at his side, Sunny wrapped her lower arm around his waist, keeping the two of them close. She had her head tilted back towards the fireworks, but in her off hand he knew she held a collapsible spear, ready for anything that was to happen.
Almost everyone in the crowd Adam saw were armed, but Sunny was armed and ready.
He leaned into her with his shoulder as another pink firework went off, and she turned to look at him with a questioning look in her eyes.
He leaned over to he could be heard over the roaring.
"You can relax you know. If Kazna tries anything here she'd be facing more than half of the Arcadian army."
Kay gasped and pointed at another set of fireworks white and green like the Arcadia flag against the black backdrop of the sky.
Sunny seemed hesitant but Adam nudged her again.
With a sigh he watched her collapse the spear and hook it to a slot in her carapace well within reach but sheathed. He leaned up to kiss her cheek forcing himself onto his tip toes to reach. "Now relax" He ordered, and to her credit she did er best.
Off in the darkness Etium must have been having a grand old time setting off fireworks. Ever since someone had given him a personality, there were two things the little furball lived for, and that was armed conflict and explosions. With every passing moment the fireworks grew more elaborate, until there were several going off every second. The crowd gasped in shock and delight until the lights stopped flashing with one last series of explosions.
Adam was left with spots in his eyes as the crowd cheered. He blinked them back.
Kay turned to look at him big green eyes wide with delight, "Did you see!"
"Yeah I saw, wasn't that cool!"
He adjusted Kay so he was sitting higher up in Adam's arms. Martha Jim, and Adam's brothers and sisters got up from where they had been sitting and walked over.
"Nothing to make you feel free like blowing things up. I think it is one of the greatest f human traditions." Jim was saying, "A staple of independence since time immemorial. You can bet if there was an independence day, people were plowing stuff up on it."
Adam smiled, "Technically ours isn't an independence day, it's a foundation day. Arcadia was never technically under the constitution of any other planet."
"Same difference."
"Gam'ma did you see!" Kay said pointing up to the sky where little clouds of smoke billowed in wisps.
"I did!" Martha said taking Kay from Adam's arms when Kay reached out for her resting the boy on her hi, the opposite him from where she was carrying her firearm. Weapons on arcadia were a symbol of status in a way, and even before his parents had come to Arcadia they had always supported the private ownership of firearms. However, he had noticed since the attack by Kazna that they carried more openly than they had before.